Motorola Solutions Inc and China's Huawei Technologies Co. have settled a legal dispute over trade secrets, clearing the way for Motorola to complete the sale of one of its business units to Nokia Siemens Networks.

D'sseldorf started the year well with a 10% January and February increase over 2010. The upwards trend clearly reflects the return to health of the German economy, but the convenience and position of D'sseldorf plays an important role. Air China starts it
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United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has taken delivery of its first 13,500 teu capacity container vessel. Umm Salal, named after an area of Qatar famed for its historic monuments, was handed over during a spectacular ceremony at the Samsung Heavy I
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Maersk Line's Climate Box, an interactive exhibit housed inside a prototype container which gives the community insight about the effects of global shipping, will be available to the public in Charleston from May 10th through May 15th in the VELUX 5 OCEAN
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Maritime companies that trade more of their vessels on the spot freight market and on shorter intra-Asia trade routes are most likely to feel the heat from soaring bunker costs, industry executives said.

Foreign crew members remain hesitant to travel near Japan's quake-crippled nuclear plant, including to some ports outside the exclusion zone, forcing shippers to use Japanese vessels instead to transport goods, senior industry executives said.
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Situated far from major population centres in North America (Montreal is closest at 600 miles), and with just a small population of barely 26,000, the relatively remote, year-round deepwater port of Sept-Iles on the north shore of the St. Lawrence seemed
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The recent significant expansion of mining and other projects in Quebec’s Cote-Nord region, has prompted the launching of a study on the feasibility of maritime transport of merchandise with the big existing and planned construction sites in the region. I
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America Feeder Lines (AFL) is closing on its service startup, says Andrew Haines, Vice President Line Management for the service. The container feeder ship service will link the Port of Halifax with Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts and New York/New
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Small and mid-size Connecticut businesses may find it easier to export their products now that the Connecticut Development Authority, the state’s quasi-public business financing arm, has entered into a partnership with with the Export-Import Bank of the U
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The Port of Davisville/Quonset Point received a major boost last week, as the US Department of Transportation awarded $4.5 million for freight and commuter rail links. But the rail development is but one aspect as a study targets offshore wind power stagi
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